Monday, March 21, 2016

Quick updates from today’s “Loop you in”
– a special event organized by Apple.

Apple and renewable energy:

Announcements from Lisa Jackson, Apple's Vice President of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives :

Apple states that their goal is to become 100% renewable in 100% of their operations worldwide. This includes all of their offices, retail stores and every single data center belonging to Apple.

Also mentions that 93% of Apple facilities run on renewable energy.

And in 21 countries around the world the company is using 100% renewable energy which is quite impressive. Kudos !!

And say Hello to Liam, a robot (R&D project) which breaks all the old iPhones and separates the reusable/renewable materials. And wow that's pretty thoughtful and amazing !!

For more information :http://www.apple.com/environment/renewable-resources/

Apple Announces CareKit:

Announced by Jeff Williams, COO,
Apple., CareKit will be an open source software framework which will help
developers to add features in the health apps like keeping track of care plans,
symptoms monitoring, measurement trackers and sharing the same information with
family and health care professionals.

Other features include CareCard – which
will help people track their individual care plans and Insight Dashboard which
will map symptoms and action items in the care card.

So this would be a great added
advantage to existing iOS frameworks like HealthKit and Research Kit.

Apple presented a cheaper and a smaller option to its flagship iPhone 6S and 6S plus taking the best of both iPhone5 and iPhone 6 series.

Apple is always brilliant, very specific and unique when it comes to design and according to Apple’s website the iPhone SE is ” Crafted from bead-blasted aluminum for a satin-like finish. And matte-chamfered edges and a color-matched stainless steel logo finish the look “